Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

[David Brin]

kewl!



--- KZK <evil.kezik at gmail.com> wrote:

>  > KZK thanks for interesting and thought-provoking
>  > stuff.
> 
> I try.
> 
>  > Look, I like Miazaki and I have enjoyed a lot of
> other
>  > anime.  Still, there seems to be a deep and
> abiding
>  > reluctance to do SF that I would call "for
> grownups".
> 
> I tried to list ones that were mostly fairly serious
> drama's with very 
> little "super deformed" animation.
> 
>  > Look, I know I have a lot more to see!  Thanks
> for the
>  > viewing assignment.  I will work my way thru it
>  > (slowly.)
> 
> Start with _Trigun_.  It's the best of the ones I
> listed.  It starts 
> goofy, but gets more & more serious.
> 
>  > >>Most stories that deal with time travel forget
> that
>  > we are also moving very rapidly in space, so if
> you
>  > were to travel in time you wouldn't bein the
> relative
>  > vicinity of where you traveled from..
> 
>  > See Benford"s TIMESCAPE that actually uses this
> as
>  > part of the plot.
> 
> Time travel is my favorite Genre of Science Fiction.
> 
> Speaking of Time-Travel and Japanese games, The best
> one was released a 
> few years ago for the Playstation called _Chrono
> Trigger_.
> 
>  > >>It seems to me, the biggest problem with faster
> than
>  > light travel (and time travel) is traveling at
> exactly
>  > the speed of light (which is
>  > division by zero).   If you could 'jump' over
> close to
>  > exactly c you
>  > could avoid most of the unpleasantries.
> 
>  > Which is why some people believe there may be
>  > tachyons.
> 
> I never knew that!
> 
>  > Thanks for the comprehensive run down of
> Japanimation
>  > studios!
> 
> Animation Quality has come a long way over just the
> past 10 years. 
> Compare the quality of the Show _Trigun_ (1998), to
> _Gungrave_ (2003?), 
> same studio and same author.
> 
>  > As for amateur CGI sf films... they do NOT have
> to be
>  > of the same rendering quality as Beowulf!  A
> helluva
>  > market niche awaits decent "cartoon" level
> renderings
>  > of really good stories.
> 
> For 2d it already exists.  It's called Flash
> animation.  There are even 
> several shows made that way on cartoon network and
> nickelodeon (_Mucha 
> Lucha_, _Handy Manny_, _fosters home for imaginary
> friends_, _sealab 
> 2021_, _harvey birdman attorney at law_, etc.).  The
> animation is very 
> awkward and unnatural, and generally doesn't look
> very good (fosters and 
> birdman being the best animated, and most
> expensive).
> 
> As for 3d, it took the guy who made _Sky Captain and
> the World of 
> Tomorrow_ something like a year and half to make
> what amounted to a 3 
> minute trailer.  It was really good, for one man
> working alone, but it 
> didn't scale up.  In order to make the movie, he
> basically had to create 
> his own studio with hundreds of employee's.
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